Submitting ink signature to Access or SQL 2000 database using Info

[Provide]

Hello,

I've concentrated my studies on Infopath 2003 within the last week and have
come a long way. Employees at my place of work use a paper form to fill out
their laptop issues. They submit it to the IT department with the paper and
we fix the laptop. I've been able to replicate the form using Infopath 2003
and have successfully figured out how to submit each field to an Access
database or SQL 2000 database...every field except one: the ink signature.

I'd like for the employees to be able to sign the form using a TabletPC and
stylus but for the life of me I can't get the signature to input into the
database like any other field. I really have researched this issue and could
not find anything that flat out says, "No, you can't do that."

Is what I'm aiming for possible? Do I need to use a web service perhaps? I'm
95% finished with the present and need this last issue to be resolved so we
can finally do away with the paper form. Any help is appreciated and I thank
you in advance for your time and patience. Please help!

 

[Art]

Isnt an ink signature an image?

You can store links to images but I do not think you can actual imagesin a
database.

 

[Provide]

Thank you for your reply.

I can live with not being being able to store actual images in the database
(I'm not a SQL expert in any case, but what is the image data type for if it
can't store an image?).

I've read about storing the image in a binary format, though. *shrugs*

Any other ideas, folks?